US EditionScientists Confirm Discovery of Massive Crater in China, Revealing Scale of Ancient Impacts Was "Far Greater than Previously Recorded"
The Jinlin crater, over 9 km wide, reveals that Holocene impacts on Earth were larger and more frequent than thought, researchers said.
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A research team in China has discovered a huge, previously unknown crater, the remains of a meteorite impact that could rewrite how we imagine the history of our planet.
A 900-Meter Clue Beneath The Granite: China’s Jinlin Crater Reshapes Our Understanding Of Holocene Impacts
For decades, scientists have assumed that the Holocene—the relatively quiet geological epoch spanning the last ~11,700 years—was marked by only a handful of small meteorite impacts, most of them modest in size. But a newly confirmed structure in southern China is now challenging that narrative.
In the foggy mountains of southern China, where no one expected to find anything extraordinary, scientists have just come across a discovery that upsets our understanding of the threats coming from space. A colossal crater of nearly one kilometre in diameter slept quietly under the vegetation, silent witness of a [...] More
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